Word: octavius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third boat seating reads: stroke, Roger W. Cutler. Jr. '37; 7, Robert B. Watson '37; 6, Robert M. Drysdale, Jr. '36; 5, William S. Burton '36; 4, Richard Stern '37; 3, William W. Prout '36; 2, Franklin A. Reece, Jr. '35; bow, Talbot Rantoul '36; and cox, Octavius R. Cohen...
Boat B: stroke, Robert B. Cutler '35; 7, Philip V. Bray '35; 6, Oliver K. Scott '37; 5, Henry Saltonstall '35; 4, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. '37; 3, Lawrence Mills '37; 2, Roger W. Cutler '37; bow, William C. Haskins '37; and cox, Octavius R. Cohen...
...patient who thinks he is Shakespeare (Geoffrey Kerr), leader of the Little Theatre movement within the walls, who starts the eminent theatricians on their collaboration. Pirandello, the metaphysician jumps at the notion. If these people think they are respectively Eve, Helen of Troy, Cleopatra, Menelaus, Marc Antony and Octavius, then they must be. And it will be a good thing for G. B. S., he wryly points out, to get an accurate picture of historical characterizations for once. Unruffled, Shaw agrees to join the venture if he can write in a scene, well prefaced, showing the evils of vivisection...
...fifth century Athens, nevertheless, the reader is sure to carry away a fairly substantial picture of the life at Rome in the height of its greatness. Inevitably other great characters of history figure to a more or less extent in this account; men such as Caesar, Crassus, Octavius, Mark Antony, Brutus, Cassius are all seen in their relation to Cicero and his times. Of course Cicero's life is the central theme of the book, and is shown throughout its development...